Repairing screw holes

TBeckett100

Hello,

Just after an opinion. We're moving next week and on our walls we have quite a few pictures grouped together. On one wall we have a collection of ten framed photos.

Would you leave the screws in or would you take them out, fill and paint them for your buyer?

getmore4less

It will look a mess unless you do the full wall, hard to patch over old paint.

Will probably leave outlines anyway.
Take the pics off and have a look.

car0line123

I put a quick touch of paint on a wall that looked really bad, but left all the screws, and my seller did the same.

That is one of the problems with a total uncertainty before exchange, and very short time between exchange and completion: even the nicest people don't have time to freshen up a house before moving.

Once you remove pictures, the walls need to be repainted anyway, so I wouldn't be too bothered about it.

DaftyDuck

For a buyer, leave, without a question. They may even welcome a place to hang a piccie or two. In the medium term they may fill them, remove the wall, whatever.

beedeedee

If there's just one or two smallish holes - a dab of toothpaste does the trick.

jamei305

Were the pictures there when the buyers viewed the house? In that case don't do anything - they should have taken into account the need for redecoration (or hanging their own pictures).

LandyAndy

Just leave it as it is.


As a buyer I hate the sellers' half hearted attempts to fill holes. I'm only going to have to do it all again, properly, when I decorate.


In the meanwhile I'd far rather look at a few empty screws than random smears of Polyfilla.

Cisco001

Get one of these to fill the hole.
http://www.diy.com/diy-irelandcom/polycell-polyfilla-white-multi-purpose-filler-396g/258487_BQ.prd

Daerve

I've filled all the holes in my house.

It's all magnolia and if you fill properly you can hardly notice it. The new owner will probably decorate every room anyway.

[Deleted User]

if you are renting, its best to fill the holes (I usually fill deep holes with paper and then top off with white powder filler made up with water - its easy to sand down unlike the premade tubs). You can buy this powder for £1 from pound shops. You can risk leaving the walls unpainted but may be asked to pay for painting.., so its up to you, buy some magnolia or whatever the wall was painted with and paint it yourself. Should only take a couple of hours.

LandyAndy

Daerve wrote: »

I've filled all the holes in my house.

It's all magnolia and if you fill properly you can hardly notice it. The new owner will probably decorate every room anyway.

And now you are trapped in one room?